Solas: Karan Casey (vocals); John Doyle (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Winifred Horan (vocals, fiddle); Mick McAuley (vocals, accordion, concertina, low whistle) Seamus Egan (nylon string guitar, mandolin, banjo, flute, low whistle, tin whistle, bodhran, percussion).

Additional personnel: Iris DeMent (vocals); Bela Fleck (5-string banjo); Michael Aharon (cello, keyboards, electric bass); Chico Huff (electric fretted & fretless basses); John Anthony (drums, djembe, udo, pandeiro, bodhran, dumbek); Steve Holloway (drums).

Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CMJ (11/23/99, p.32) - "....regarded as one of the foremost practioners of Irish folk music....There has always been a strong connection between Irish and American folk music, so Solas new fusion is really no surprise..."

Dirty Linen (4-5/99, p.68) - "...one of the best Irish traditional music ensembles in the country, if not the world....THE WORDS THAT REMAIN is a fine album..."